Public Speaking MCQ Quiz - Multiple Choice Questions & Answers Page 2

11. What method of delivery does this chapter recommend for your introductory speech?

1. Extemporaneous
2. Impromptu
3. Manuscript
4. Memorized

12. .................... is mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself or herself giving a successful presentation

1. Focusing
2. Visualization
3. Representation
4. Channeling

13. The knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes through which each listener filters a message make up the listeners

1. Frame of Reference
2. Cognitive Screen
3. Psychological Filter
4. Attitudinal Field

14. According to your textbook, stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as ones own is called

1. Global plagiarism.
2. Patchwork plagiarism.
3. Incremental plagiarism.
4. Admissible plagiarism.

15. When a speaker ...................., she restates or summarizes an authors ideas in her own words.

1. Illustrates
2. Rationalizes
3. Paraphrases

16. .................... is a method of generating ideas for speech topics by free association of words and ideas

1. Imaging
2. Brainstorming
3. Channeling

17. When you want to change or structure the attitudes of your audience, your general purpose is to

1. Inform
2. Persuade
3. Entertain

18. When your general purpose is to .................... , you act as a teacher or lecturer.

1. Inform
2. Persuade
3. Entertain

19. According to your textbook, .................... is anything that impedes the communication of a message

1. Interference
2. Blockage
3. Distortion

20. The .................... is a single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in her or his speech.

1. Introductory statement
2. General purpose statement
3. Specific purpose statement
4. Central idea